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As infections reported this week in India have the world on high alert, China says it has testing kits ready and a potential drug treatment.
Authorities attribute the surge to more frequent scanning and promote insurance; Chinese citizens and an expert suspect there are other factors causing it.
The COVID-19 pandemic weakened the upper respiratory tract of many people, one doctor said.
Hospital workers in China continue to see reports of ‘white lung’ and sudden deaths in the new wave of illness.
Residents across China tell The Epoch Times they believe it’s far more severe than what the official data indicate.
The Chinese regime’s ongoing cover-up is endangering the world as it’s not possible to track virus spreading routes, one expert said.
The NB.1.8.1 variant is currently the dominant strain in China, data has shown.
NB.1.8.1’s dominance is particularly pronounced in Asia—China’s immediate neighbors.
“Razor blade throat” is a term used in China to describe severe throat pain, akin to swallowing shattered glass or razor blades.
Experts say the CCP continues to underreport the scale of the outbreak as it spreads to Hong Kong and Taiwan.
They told The Epoch Times that recently more young and middle-aged people around them have died suddenly.
The official report is deliberately vague about whether the influenza virus strain spreading in China is drug-resistant, a U.S. expert on the China CDC said.
Every year since COVID-19, a wave of respiratory infections has swept across China.
The document describes a new mutation in the hemagglutinin protein gene but lacks details, drawing concern from experts.
Experts say possible reasons include weakened immunity, vaccination side effects, stress, and other infectious diseases.
What the authorities really want to investigate is human bird flu infections in southern China, according to one expert.
‘This virus could create a highly extremely threatening new bioweapons agent and pandemic pathogen,’ a molecular biologist said.
‘There are very few people on the streets now; it’s very quiet,’ one resident in Shijiazhuang said.
Since the 2003 SARS epidemic, the Chinese regime’s approach to health crises has remained unchanged, a doctor told The Epoch Times.
In the absence of reliable health data, crowded hospitals have sparked fears among the public during the Lunar New Year holiday.
